Commanding Blessings
The LORD will command the blessing upon you in your barns and in all that you put your hand to, and He will bless you in the land which the LORD your God gives you.
At church last night, we went through the blessings spelt out in Deut 28. Now they are all great, but the above, Deut 28:8, is the one that I thought was awesome. It’s the whole thing about commanding blessings upon you in your barns. Now when I think about a barn, I think of the place where you store all of your stuff. Equate this to your savings account or 401k or stock portfolio to bring it a few thousand years into the present. Barns are something that my mind thinks need to be protected. I would expect this verse to say something about God protecting your barns from the enemy.
But no. Instead of protecting what you have gathered/created/earned, God commands blessings upon your stuff. That’s absolutely brilliant, and I’ll tell you why. If you are defending something precious to you, you only have to screw up once in order to be screwed. If the enemy gets past your defenses, all your stuff is now gone/destroyed and you have to start over. I know God isn’t going to fail, but most of us have faith issues from time to time and worry when there is no need to. But this, this is different.
Instead of defending your stuff, God commands blessings on it. So let the enemy come! Let them come and so what if they get past you in a moment of weakness and destroy something? So what if they make off with something you created? At the end of the day, you are blessed and your finances are blessed. So the enemy will attack you, because that is what he does. And God will bless you, because He said so. The enemy’s problem is that he can’t take more than God can provide you with.
As always, the focus is on God and who cares what your enemies are trying? Those fools already lost.
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